Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, Mbe (conceived 25 December 1984) is the skipper of the English Test and Odi cricket groups. He is a left-gave opening batsman who plays province cricket for Essex. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his introduction for the first Xi in 2003. He played in a mixed bag of England's youth groups from 2000 until his ring to the Test side in 2006. 

While touring in the West Indies with the Ecb National Academy, Cook was rung to the England national group in India as a last-minute supplanting for Marcus Trescothick and appeared with a century. He made his introduction at the age of 21 and went ahead to score 1,000 runs in his lady year and turn into the most youthful Englishman to achieve 1,500, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 Test runs, making hundreds of years in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh. 

Conceived in Gloucester, Alastair Cook is one of numerous players of blended Anglo-Welsh legacy to play for England; his mother Stephanie is an educator from Swansea, while his father Graham functioned as a Bt specialist and also being a village cricketer. Cook is a sharp artist. By the age of eight, he was studying the clarinet, and joined St Paul's Cathedral School in London, an autonomous school associated with the church, as a chorister, where he sheets under a thorough calendar of practices, whilst additionally studying the clarinet. 

Cook had his first taste of universal cricket playing the U15 World Cup in 2000. Three years after the fact Cook was rung to the Under 19 England group for their tour of South Africa. After it was chosen Samit Patel had enough authority batting and playing, Cook was named commander of the group the accompanying year, 2004. His first call of obligation was the U19 World Cup in the West Indies where he guided England through the gathering stages and on past the Super League stage, incorporating an unbeaten century-every association with Patel against New Zealand, and proceeded a 100% win record with 87 over inevitable victors Pakistan before missing the point in the semi-last against the West Indies. He went ahead from that point to chief them in a U19 Test win over Bangladesh before taking the One-Day arrangement too. His vocation with the Under 19 group was given the ax when Kevin Pietersen was rung to trade Andrew Flintoff in the primary group, leaving a spot in England A's tour of Sri Lanka for Cook. After the 2005 down home season he was part of the admission for the Ecb National Academy, however this was hindered as he traveled to Pakistan to blanket the squad for Michael Vaughan's knee injury. After not being utilized as a part of the first Xi he voyaged once again with the Academy to the West Indies in the new year scoring 101 in a two-day match against Antigua before youth cricket went to a precipitous stop for Cook.

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